How the names on the 9/11 memorial were arranged:
The planners of the memorial, which will be dedicated this weekend where the Twin Towers once stood, solicited requests from victims' loved ones for "meaningful adjacencies"—names that should appear together on the memorial. Roughly 1,200 responses came back, asking that a victim's name be grouped with specific colleagues, with family members or with friends who also perished in the attacks. The web of meaningful adjacencies at firms such as Cantor Fitzgerald were large and complex—loved ones made half a dozen or so adjacency requests for some victims.
(Photo from the 9/11 memorial website)
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